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Essential templates and guides to effectively manage Crown reserves and ensure proper management of these important assets.

Information for Crown land management and guidance on terms surrounding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 and the assessment of Aboriginal land claims.

Contact Reserve Manager for assistance, information or feedback related to Crown land management, reserve activities and related projects.

Commons differ from Crown reserves and other public land in that they were created for the use of local residents and supported by a commons trust.

Commons were originally set aside in the 19th and 20th centuries so that people who resided within a town had somewhere to graze their stock.

A commons trust is responsible for the care, control and management of the common in the interests of the commoners.

By participating as members of a commons trust board, commoners play an important part in the management and operation of their common.

Commons trusts control the land making up the common for the benefit of the commoners and, if authorised in an adopted management plan, for the wider community.

A common is managed by a commons trust established, named and constituted as a corporation by the minister administering the Commons Management Act 1989.

Commons are for the specific needs of the commoners. However, parts of the common can be leased or licensed with prior authorisation from the minister.